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Perchance Asti dreamed also, and could hear in her dreams; at least, she would speak to her. "Asti," she whispered, "Asti, can you hear me?" The grey figure at her side stirred, and the head turned towards her. Then the voice of Asti, none other, answered: "Aye, Lady, I hear and see. But say, where are we now?" "In the Under-world, I think, Asti.
Tua and Asti stood upon one side of this basin, and to the other came the King, so that the water lay between them. Thrice he bowed to Tua, then said: "Lady, who, as your servants tell me, are known as Neferte, a maiden of Egypt, and for lack of the true name, doubtless this will serve, Lady, I come to ask your pardon for what must seem to you to be a grievous wrong.
The Shadow looked from her to Asti, who answered briefly: "Where my Lady goes there I follow, knowing that Mermes always waits. What shall we do?" The Ka motioned to them to stand together in the narrow winding-place, and this they did, their arms about each other. Next she lifted her sceptre and spoke some word.
Just as they had finished their meal, and the sun was sinking suddenly, there appeared before them two masked men, each of whom bore a basket in his hand. Asti began to question them, but like the captain and the steersman, they seemed to be deaf and dumb.
"Then," said Janees slowly, "I who might do less, desire to make this daughter of yours my Queen do you understand, Merchant of Pearls my Queen, and as a gift you shall have as much gold again as I have promised for your gems." "Other kings have desired as much and offered more, but she is not for you or any of them," answered Asti, looking him in the face.
Besides the town of Asti, she took with her in money 400,000 golden florins. Her gems were estimated at 68,858 florins, and her plate at 1,667 marks of Paris. The inventory is curious.
I would listen to that music which is above price." So Janees listened like one fascinated, for Tua was singing her best. Step by step he drew ever nearer to the screen, though this Asti did not notice, for she was engaged in locking up her goods.
"Here's to the memory of the divine prince, and may he have left the table of Osiris before I come there. And here's to the hand that sent him thither," said Tua recklessly. Then she drained the wine, every drop of it, and threw the cup to the marble floor where it shattered into bits. "What god has entered into your Majesty to-night?" asked Asti quietly.
She it was that set the games they played, and when she talked he was obliged to listen, for although she was so sound and healthy, this Tua differed from other children. Thus she had what she called her "silent hours" when she would suffer no one to come near her, not her ladies or her foster-mother, Asti herself, nor even Rames.
The peace between the two countries was too ephemeral to permit the realisation of his pious hope. The Marshal Trivulzio accompanied his kinsman to Asti and from thence to Carmagnola where they obtained an audience of the Cardinal d'Amboise, Legate for France. Despite his undisguised hostility to Spaniards, the Legate furnished the ambassador with a safe-conduct over the frontier into Spain.
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